Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47ddfc0c3c1e8d96…

MALICIOUS

PDF

87.3 KB Created: 2021-07-05 03:18:11 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-05
MD5: 330ab53057ea2ec2f096c3d087894ce0 SHA-1: fbb7e79ce9fd51ac5a4ce561150fbbf8305db3d3 SHA-256: 47ddfc0c3c1e8d96ed9516c318160fc3716e11b2798ce7008f423615ad9b278c
164 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm pointing to compromised WordPress upload storage and disposable hosting, suggesting a phishing or malware distribution attempt. The presence of a 'download button' heuristic further supports a lure-based attack pattern. Although no scripts were explicitly extracted, the ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely related to phishing or malware delivery.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9961

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Visual download / call-to-action button lure low SE_DOWNLOAD_BUTTON
    Document contains a call-to-action phrase ('Click here to download', 'Download Now', etc.) — low-signal unless other findings point to a malicious workflow
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://gastrotest.co/ckfinder/userfiles/files/vikizujosaterinow.pdf In PDF document text
    • https://cedarcreeksauce.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8cc93ecc4359cc39e326903977d300e3/80488163099.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://boldvision.tv/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160853f3726ef8---9118571699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dbmotorbrokers.com/userfiles/file/46837111038.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elpmarketing.ca/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/714659a829d14e270a87673215bd40e5/47287956749.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://marcobernini.it/userfiles/files/mosigekapatovo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cesishotel.lv/res/wysiwyg/file/11705748716.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://iwnta.com/userfiles/file/8213263441.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://beaumont-residence.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/sds7jf2g100n1kjjim34jadm9d/12633070668.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://donnasalon.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fcce6cfacf9faf939c87aab155891a79/11386280953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://forex-robo.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e0b20204103f17db93573aac3f7bd1a9/18044946838.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://yaqeen-eg.com/userfiles/file/89472319645.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://hotelindigha.com/FCKeditor/file/vagas.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hellnocancershow.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16086724f37797---65093593408.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xperion.hu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/cf4b1c9465581abaf7d2a430042ff6a3/10241854872.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://agsposure.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9a4ab03c87193627546e3eb2e97f9976/57714617342.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://prinsart.ro/uploads/files/fujexube.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://camel-republic.com/media/userfiles/files/lumomusepovi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://xn--3e0b556bhrbowi6undva.com/ckupload/files/bugabetobosemenavigajodu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://asesoriagarpe.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a008b8d6c7f---puvopavajifa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinara.org.br/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160aa41b19510a---16082021662.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://elbag.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/3ed9fcb2271254c4ac28717a27e03a17/80273175180.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/BvfzZFkJO3s/uplcv?utm_term=match+your+cupid+companionPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000f371.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF371 17332 bytes
SHA-256: 04c4dbb36a8fc87ac1debc182df687bd23e1328be496233ade04647f8bc8e8c1
font_01_sfnt_off00011fc6.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11FC6 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off000137dd.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x137DD 10640 bytes
SHA-256: ea58f5e70cb304b142140a6ce0af0288b3b24fbe6632874ee92ae2d95de18465